自然杀伤细胞免疫功能相关糖结合蛋白的研究进展

自然杀伤(NK)细胞是固有免疫系统的重要组成,其作为抵抗病原体和癌变细胞的第一道机体防线,通过释放穿孔素、颗粒酶等介导的细胞毒作用杀伤靶细胞.随着糖组学的飞速发展,大量研究报道糖基化异常往往与细胞的病变相关,这为免疫学研究及疾病的治疗策略提供了全新的研究角度.NK细胞作为固有免疫系统的主要效应细胞之一,其活性及功能受细胞表面糖基化修饰及相关糖结合蛋白(例如siglec、selectin及galectin)的影响较大,siglec通过与肿瘤细胞表面上调的唾液酸化糖链结合以抑制NK细胞活化,selectin与其配体相互作用促进NK细胞的免疫功能,galectin结合β-半乳糖苷介导NK细胞免疫进程.因此,本文从糖组学的角度概述与NK细胞免疫功能相关的糖结合蛋白及与其相互作用糖链的最新研究进展,并且讨论了病变过程中糖结合蛋白异常对肿瘤进程的影响,以及其在疾病治疗策略方面的应用前景.     

糖组学研究策略及前沿技术研究进展

糖组学是继基因组学和蛋白质组学后的新兴研究领域,主要研究聚糖结构与功能.通过与蛋白质组数据库结合,糖捕捉法能系统鉴定糖蛋白和糖基化位点.糖微阵列技术可以对生物个体产生的全部蛋白聚糖结构进行鉴定与表征,提高了聚糖分析通量.而化学选择糖印迹技术简化了聚糖纯化步骤并提高了糖基化分析的灵敏度.双消化并串联柱法通过双酶消化双柱分离,在分析聚糖结构的同时也鉴定蛋白质的序列,并与蛋白质组学研究兼容.     

甘露聚糖结合蛋白选择性糖识别的分子机制

甘露聚糖结合蛋白选择性糖识别的分子机制陈政良（广州第一军医大学免疫学教研室,广州５１０５１５）关键词甘露聚糖结合蛋白,糖识别甘露聚糖结合蛋白（ｍａｎｎａｎ－ｂｉｎｄｉｎｇｐｒｏｔｅｉｎ,ＭＢＰ）是一种血浆蛋白,因被发现能选择性识别并结合酵母菌外壁上的...     

应用凝集素芯片分析癌细胞膜表面糖链表达

细胞膜表面糖复合物的糖链结构与肿瘤细胞增殖、侵染、转移等发展过程密切相关.凝集素芯片技术的出现实现了对癌症的糖组进行快速、高通量的检测.通过模式细胞系PANC-1证明了构建的凝集素芯片体系的准确性、重复性、特异性,应用这一芯片体系初步检测了几种癌细胞系(HT-29、SGC-7901、BEL-7402、H460)的膜表面糖链表达.这几种癌细胞系表面都有唾液酸、乙酰葡萄糖/葡萄糖、乙酰半乳糖/半乳糖、甘露糖等糖链.根据实验结果,推测它们的细胞膜表面α1-6岩藻糖链表达水平可能较高,而α1-3岩藻糖链表达水平较低;这些聚糖可能是癌症潜在的标志物.凝集素芯片有助于推动癌细胞膜表面糖链的快速分析和筛选出癌症相关的糖链标志物.     

糖微阵列技术在糖组学研究中的进展

聚糖多以蛋白质和脂配基形式存在,在生物体内的信息传递、细胞识别和蛋白质折叠等生物过程中具有十分重要作用,是继核酸和蛋白质之后被发现的第三类生物信息分子.但聚糖结构复杂,并存在大量异构体,无法象DNA一样进行合成和测序.根据聚糖分子能够与凝集素或糖结合蛋白特异性结合,提出并发展了糖微阵列技术.此技术在聚糖结构与功能研究中已显示出优越性.通过对糖微阵列构建方式及检测方法的探讨,对近些年来糖微阵列技术的发展进行了综述.     

半夏凝集素的糖结合活性研究

半夏凝集素可与甘露聚糖结合。本文以ＰＴＬ与＾１２５Ｉ标记的甘露聚糖的结合活性为指标,观察了一些金属离子对ＰＴＬ的糖结合活性的影响,并对ＰＴＬ的糖结合专一性作了较系统的研究。结果表明常见的金属离子或ＥＤＴＡ对其糖结合活性无显著影响,但Ｋ＾＋可明显增加ＰＴＬ的糖结合活性。大多数单糖,二糖不抑制ＰＴＬ与甘露聚糖的结合,但一些疏水配基形成的糖苷可产生显著的抑制效应。ＰＴＬ专一与高甘露糖型糖链结合。     

凝集素芯片技术检测糖蛋白方法的建立及初步应用

建立了凝集素芯片技术检测糖蛋白的方法,对实验条件进行了优化,应用凝集素芯片初步检测分析了Chang?蒺s liver正常肝细胞总蛋白中的糖蛋白糖链构成．将凝集素ConA、GNA固定于环氧化修饰的玻片表面,用Cy3标记标准糖蛋白RNaseB,利用凝集素识别特异糖链的原理建立凝集素芯片检测糖蛋白的方法．摸索出最佳封闭剂是含1% BSA的磷酸缓冲液,最佳孵育时间及温度为3 h和室温,最佳孵育缓冲液为含1% BSA和0.05% Tween-20的磷酸缓冲液,并用甘露糖抑制实验验证了凝集素芯片结合的特异性．用包含10种凝集素的芯片,成功解析了标准糖蛋白RNaseB、Fetuin的糖链构成,证实了凝集素芯片检测糖蛋白糖链的可行性．最后用凝集素芯片初步检测分析了Chang?蒺s liver正常肝细胞总蛋白中的糖蛋白糖链构成,发现 Chang's liver正常肝细胞总蛋白中的糖蛋白可能有多价 Sia或GlcNAc、terminalα-1,3 mannose、GalNAc、Galβ-1,4GlcNAc这些糖链结构的存在．蛋白质糖基化是一种重要的翻译后修饰,它在微生物感染、细胞分化、肿瘤转移、细胞癌变等生命活动中起着重要作用,因此近年来蛋白质的糖基化研究受到广泛的重视,但由于缺乏一种简便、快速、高通量的检测手段,蛋白质糖基化修饰的研究发展缓慢．凝集素芯片技术的出现实现了对糖蛋白的快速、准确、高通量的检测 分析．     

平分型GlcNAc糖基化修饰的生物学功能

平分型GlcNAc（bisecting N—acetylglucosamine）修饰是糖蛋白N-聚糖核心的常见分支修饰形式,哺乳类动物该糖基化修饰由β1,4-N-乙酰葡糖氨基转移酶Ⅲ催化。该修饰对分子结合、信号传导、生殖发育以及肿瘤细胞的生物学行为都有重要影响。相应地,针对平分型GlcNAc修饰N-聚糖的检测也正逐步成为糖生物学领域内的研究热点之一。     

半夏凝集素的糖结合活性研究

半夏凝集素(PTL)可与甘露聚糖结合。本文以PTL与~(125)I标记的甘露聚糖的结合活性为指标,观察了一些金属离子对PTL的糖结合活性的影响,井对PTL的糖结合专一性作了较系统的研究。结果表明常见的金属离子或EDTA对其糖结合活性无显著影响,但K~+可明显增加PTL的糖结合活性。大多数单糖,二糖不抑制PTL与甘露聚糖的结合,但一些疏水配基形成的糖苷可产生显著的抑制效应。PTL专一与高甘露糖型糖链结合。     

糖芯片的制备和检测应用研究进展

近数十年来,糖芯片逐渐成为分析糖介导的识别和结合作用的强有力工具,具有样品检测用量少、特异性强和高通量等优点,可以大大提高糖生物学研究的效率。主要介绍了通过糖库的构建、共价结合和非共价吸附法等方法制备糖芯片的过程,糖芯片的检测方法及其在生物学研究和生物医学领域的应用,以期为糖芯片相关研究提供参考。     

Natural glycan microarrays

Glycan microarrays are emerging as increasingly used screening tools with a high potential for unraveling protein–carbohydrate interactions: probing hundreds or even thousands of glycans in parallel, they provide the researcher with a vast amount of data in a short time-frame, while using relatively small amounts of analytes. Natural glycan microarrays focus on the glycans’ repertoire of natural sources, including both well-defined structures as well as still-unknown ones. This article compares different natural glycan microarray strategies. Glycan probes may comprise oligosaccharides from glycoproteins as well as glycolipids and polysaccharides. Oligosaccharides may be purified from scarce biological samples that are of particular relevance for the carbohydrate-binding protein to be studied. We give an overview of strategies for glycan isolation, derivatization, fractionation, immobilization and structural characterization. Detection methods such as fluorescence analysis and surface plasmon resonance are summarized. The importance of glycan density and multivalency is discussed. Furthermore, some applications of natural glycan microarrays for studying lectin and antibody binding are presented.     

Chemically-blocked antibody microarray for multiplexed high-throughput profiling of specific protein glycosylation in complex samples

In this study, we describe an effective protocol for use in a multiplexed high-throughput antibody microarray with glycan binding protein detection that allows for the glycosylation profiling of specific proteins. Glycosylation of proteins is the most prevalent post-translational modification found on proteins, and leads diversified modifications of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of proteins. Because the glycosylation machinery is particularly susceptible to disease progression and malignant transformation, aberrant glycosylation has been recognized as early detection biomarkers for cancer and other diseases. However, current methods to study protein glycosylation typically are too complicated or expensive for use in most normal laboratory or clinical settings and a more practical method to study protein glycosylation is needed. The new protocol described in this study makes use of a chemically blocked antibody microarray with glycan-binding protein (GBP) detection and significantly reduces the time, cost, and lab equipment requirements needed to study protein glycosylation. In this method, multiple immobilized glycoprotein-specific antibodies are printed directly onto the microarray slides and the N-glycans on the antibodies are blocked. The blocked, immobilized glycoprotein-specific antibodies are able to capture and isolate glycoproteins from a complex sample that is applied directly onto the microarray slides. Glycan detection then can be performed by the application of biotinylated lectins and other GBPs to the microarray slide, while binding levels can be determined using Dylight 549-Streptavidin. Through the use of an antibody panel and probing with multiple biotinylated lectins, this method allows for an effective glycosylation profile of the different proteins found in a given human or animal sample to be developed.     

The bulky and the sweet: How neutralizing antibodies and glycan receptors compete for virus binding

Numerous viruses rely on glycan receptor binding as the initial step in host cell infection. Engagement of specific glycan receptors such as sialylated carbohydrates, glycosaminoglycans, or histo‐blood group antigens can determine host range, tissue tropism, and pathogenicity. Glycan receptor‐binding sites are typically located in exposed regions on viral surfaces—sites that are also generally prone to binding of neutralizing antibodies that directly interfere with virus‐glycan receptor interactions. In this review, we examine the locations and architecture of the glycan‐ and antibody‐binding sites in four different viruses with stalk‐like attachment proteins (reovirus, influenza virus, norovirus, and coronavirus) and investigate the mechanisms by which antibodies block glycan recognition. Those viruses exemplify that direct molecular mimicking of glycan receptors by antibodies is rare and further demonstrate that antibodies often partly overlap or bind sufficiently close to the receptor‐binding region to hinder access to this site, achieving neutralization partially because of the epitope location and partly due to their sheer size.     

Structural variation in the glycan strands of bacterial peptidoglycan

The normal, unmodified glycan strands of bacterial peptidoglycan consist of alternating residues of beta-1,4-linked N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine. In many species the glycan strands become modified after their insertion into the cell wall. This review describes the structure of secondary modifications and of attachment sites of surface polymers in the glycan strands of peptidoglycan. It also provides an overview of the occurrence of these modifications in various bacterial species. Recently, enzymes responsible for the N-deacetylation, N-glycolylation and O-acetylation of the glycan strands were identified. The presence of these modifications affects the hydrolysis of peptidoglycan and its enlargement during cell growth. Glycan strands are frequently deacetylated and/or O-acetylated in pathogenic species. These alterations affect the recognition of bacteria by host factors, and contribute to the resistance of bacteria to host defence factors such as lysozyme.     

Glycan analysis of therapeutic glycoproteins

Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are glycoproteins produced by living cell systems. The glycan moieties attached to the proteins can directly affect protein stability, bioactivity, and immunogenicity. Therefore, glycan variants of a glycoprotein product must be adequately analyzed and controlled to ensure product quality. However, the inherent complexity of protein glycosylation poses a daunting analytical challenge. This review provides an update of recent advances in glycan analysis, including the potential utility of lectin-based microarray for high throughput glycan profiling. Emphasis is placed on comparison of the major types of analytics for use in determining unique glycan features such as glycosylation site, glycan structure, and content.     

Natural glycan microarrays

Glycan microarrays are emerging as increasingly used screening tools with a high potential for unraveling protein-carbohydrate interactions: probing hundreds or even thousands of glycans in parallel, they provide the researcher with a vast amount of data in a short time-frame, while using relatively small amounts of analytes. Natural glycan microarrays focus on the glycans' repertoire of natural sources, including both well-defined structures as well as still-unknown ones. This article compares different natural glycan microarray strategies. Glycan probes may comprise oligosaccharides from glycoproteins as well as glycolipids and polysaccharides. Oligosaccharides may be purified from scarce biological samples that are of particular relevance for the carbohydrate-binding protein to be studied. We give an overview of strategies for glycan isolation, derivatization, fractionation, immobilization and structural characterization. Detection methods such as fluorescence analysis and surface plasmon resonance are summarized. The importance of glycan density and multivalency is discussed. Furthermore, some applications of natural glycan microarrays for studying lectin and antibody binding are presented.     

Arraying glycomics: a novel bi-functional spacer for one-step microscale derivatization of free reducing glycans

Glycan array development is limited by the complexity of efficiently generating derivatives of free reducing glycans with primary amines or other functional groups. A novel bi-functional spacer with selective reactivity toward the free glycan and a second functionality, a primary amine, was synthesized. We demonstrated an efficient one-step derivatization of various glycans including naturally isolated N-glycans, O-glycans, milk oligosaccharides, and bacterial polysaccharides in microgram scale. No protecting group manipulations or activation of the anomeric center was required. To demonstrate its utility for glycan microarray fabrication, we compared glycans with different amine-spacers for incorporation onto an amine-reactive glass surface. Our study results revealed that glycans conjugated with this bi-functional linker were effectively printed and detected with various lectins and antibodies.     

Core glycan in the yeast multicopper ferroxidase, Fet3p: A case study of N-linked glycosylation, protein maturation, and stability

Glycosylation is essential to the maintenance of protein quality in the vesicular protein trafficking pathway in eukaryotic cells. Using the yeast multicopper oxidase, Fet3p, the hypothesis is tested that core glycosylation suppresses Fet3p nascent chain aggregation during synthesis into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Fet3p has 11 crystallographically mapped N‐linked core glycan units. Assembly of four of these units is specifically required for localization of Fet3p to the plasma membrane (PM). Fet3 protein lacking any one of these glycan units is found in an intracellular high‐molecular mass species resolvable by blue native gel electrophoresis. Individually, the remaining glycan moieties are not required for ER exit; however, serial deletion of these by N → A substitution correlates with these desglycan species failure to exit the ER. Desglycan Fet3 proteins that localize to the PM are wild type in function indicating that the missing carbohydrate is not required for native structure and biologic activity. This native function includes the interaction with the iron permease, Ftr1p, and wild type high‐affinity iron uptake activity. The four essential sequons are found within relatively nonpolar regions located in surface recesses and are strongly conserved among fungal Fet3 proteins. The remaining N‐linked sites are found in more surface exposed, less nonpolar environments, and their conservation is weak or absent. The data indicate that in Fet3p the N‐linked glycan has little effect on the enzyme's molecular activity but is critical to its cellular activity by maximizing the protein's exit from the ER and assembly into a functional iron uptake complex.